This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
When it feels like the world is on your shoulders
And all the madness has got you going crazy,
It's time to get out
Step out into the street
Where all of the action is right there at your feet
Well, I know a place where we can dance the whole night away
Underneath the electric stars
Just come with me, and we can shake it loose right away
You'll be doing fine once the music starts, oh
Feel the beat of the rhythm of the night
Dance until the morning light
Forget about the worries on your mind
'Cause you can leave them all behind
Feel the beat of the rhythm of the night
Oh, rhythm of the night
Look out on the street, now, the party's just beginning
The music's playing, a celebration's starting
Under the streetlights, the scene is being set
A night for romance, a night you won't forget
So come join the fun, this ain't no time to be staying home
There's too much going on
Tonight is gonna be a night like you've never known
We're gonna have a good time the whole night long
Feel the beat of the rhythm of the night
Dance until the morning light
Forget about the worries on your mind
'Cause you can leave them all behind
Feel the beat of the rhythm of the night
Oh, rhythm of the night
I know a place where we can dance the whole night away
Underneath the electric stars
Just come with me, and we can shake it loose right away
You'll be doing fine once the music starts, oh
Feel the beat of the rhythm of the night
Dance until the morning light
Forget about the worries on your mind
'Cause you can leave them all behind
Feel the beat of the rhythm of the night
Oh, rhythm of the night
And all the madness has got you going crazy,
It's time to get out
Step out into the street
Where all of the action is right there at your feet
Well, I know a place where we can dance the whole night away
Underneath the electric stars
Just come with me, and we can shake it loose right away
You'll be doing fine once the music starts, oh
Feel the beat of the rhythm of the night
Dance until the morning light
Forget about the worries on your mind
'Cause you can leave them all behind
Feel the beat of the rhythm of the night
Oh, rhythm of the night
Look out on the street, now, the party's just beginning
The music's playing, a celebration's starting
Under the streetlights, the scene is being set
A night for romance, a night you won't forget
So come join the fun, this ain't no time to be staying home
There's too much going on
Tonight is gonna be a night like you've never known
We're gonna have a good time the whole night long
Feel the beat of the rhythm of the night
Dance until the morning light
Forget about the worries on your mind
'Cause you can leave them all behind
Feel the beat of the rhythm of the night
Oh, rhythm of the night
I know a place where we can dance the whole night away
Underneath the electric stars
Just come with me, and we can shake it loose right away
You'll be doing fine once the music starts, oh
Feel the beat of the rhythm of the night
Dance until the morning light
Forget about the worries on your mind
'Cause you can leave them all behind
Feel the beat of the rhythm of the night
Oh, rhythm of the night
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